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Image Credit: Photograph provided by Kerstin Baer, New York University School of Medicine.

After budding from an infected hepatocyte and leaving the liver, a Plasmodium yoelii merosome containing dozens of merozoites has been arrested in a lung capillary. The malaria parasites will eventually burst out of the merosome and infect red blood cells (see Baer et al, page e171).